Find and replace hyperlinks

[new_programmer]

Hi guys,

Can someone tell me how to find hyperlinks in content and replacing it with my own content?

lets say

$content = "click on [url]http://www.somelink.com[/url] to read more info";

i would like to replace http://www.somelink.com to some other text in $content

Thanks in Advance

[bradgrafelman]

Simple example:

$pattern = '@(?<=\[url\]).*?(?=\[/url\])@si';
$replace = 'some other text';
$content = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $content);

[gardnc]

If the str to be replaced is always exactly "http://www.somelink.com" then:

str_replace() can replace it with a new url.

If it is not a consistent url then explode() the string to an array using a space as the delimiter, replace the array position containing the url with what you want and then implode the array back to the string with the glue a space character.